malcs

After much playing around on templot and with some help in refining from Mr Walley I have a plan.

Apart from my life long love of the railways and being 60 with all the usual senior ailments (eyes) I turned to O gauge in part for scratch and kits building, track, locos and everything else., so while I appreciate the RTR offerings I would be sad to see them smother the kit producers. Malc

Hi Mike thank you, very much appreciate. Malc

Anything is possible, what ever I do will probably be loosely based , I have a track plan in my head which I will put to paper, print some more templates and see if it works. However it turns out it will be called “Amington sidings” because that’s where I live. Malc

Interesting stuff, I’m in the throes off coming up with a modified plan.

Hi mikeg do you by chance still have your original track plan? Malc

Though I have come to this late this and the article in the O gauge gazette has given me enough info to look in to radio control myself, and I like the idea of building some of the kit myself.

It looks like I'm being called towards an industrial line with maybe a narrow gauge along the back for the back scene.

Thanks all for your input, I think I may need to rethink, although I was thinking of a much simplified plan etc. My problem is I am not a railway person I just love trains and models of trains. I do have something in mind which would involve standard gauge with a narrow gauge running on a low bank along the back.

Because I like both steam and early diesels my plans have kind of leaned toward preservation society which sits well with a loosely based Swanage themed layout. Know how I think I will probably down lown timbertracks templates and do it that way. Size will be 2ft wide by 14ft along one wall and an 8ft right angle along the other.

Thanks for reply If modelling the station after expansion, it's a big chunk for 7mm scale. So date that you want to model is important. Date, any date really as I intend to model free style using Swange as a template, I have googled a lot for track plans but nothing really fits the bill.

Hi and merry Christmas to all, not really posted before but I do read a lot of other post etc, so my question is does anyone have track plan for Swanage ? I had family in Swanage and the wife and I spent many holidays there, I spent a lot of time in the station of Swange, Corfe and Wareham. So I thought like many I would do a layout of Swanage in 7mm though it would not be an exact scale model more an approximation to include station and shed/ turntable. I know I could try one of the cad programs but I do not have time to learn that or the brain power also this will be the only layout to be done. Any help would be most appreciated . Malcolm